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Lower Internet rates are announced.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE by its initials in Spanish) announced discounts ranging between 24% and 38% for residential Internet rates, starting in January next year.
The least expensive rate is for the service of 256 kilobytes per second (kbps), which goes down from $19 to $13 a month. In colones, the price will go from ¢10,700 to ¢7300. The half a megabyte per second connections (512 kbps) will also go down from $25 to $19. That is, from ¢14,000 to ¢10,700. Meanwhile, the one megabyte per second service would drop from $38 to $25, and the two megabyte per second from $62 to $38.
These changes would allow users to decide whether to pay less or if they want to double their connection speed for the same price they are now paying. The announcement was made in Costa Rica by Jorge Sanchez, director of sector management for the ICE.
Sanchez spoke during a presentation on Cisco's latest barometer of the population’s access to broadband Internet. High-speed connections allow users to enjoy more access and in a faster manner, to various services that are available online.
Broadband connections range from 128 kbps onwards. Here, it is estimated that nearly half of the connections are only between 128 kbps and 250 kbps, so the Cisco barometer recommends increasing the capacity of users’ connections.
In other countries, 32 megabyte per second residential Internet services are already being sold, for example.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) has about 85,000 ADSL broadband connections.
Costa Rican Radiographic (RACSA by its initials in Spanish) has another 35,000 cable modem links and 1,200 WiMax (wireless) links.
The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (ARESEP) had authorized the ICE to lower tariffs at any time without having to submit an application. The entity simply needs to report the change.
This is a story that certainly is of great benefit for Costa Rica as a whole. Experts had previously indicated that the country is far behind in terms of connection speeds and has very high prices. At TicosLand.com, we hope that the lower rates are not the only possibility. But, as was previously mentioned, we hope they will increase the speed even more, perhaps to the 32 mbps that other countries have.
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